{"pk":27213,"title":"Iconicity in Word Learning: What Can We Learn from Cross-SituationalLearning Experiments?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Iconicity, i.e. resemblance between form and meaning, is awidespread feature of natural language vocabulary (Perniss,Thompson, & Vigliocco, 2010), and has been shown tofacilitate vocabulary acquisition (Imai, Kita, Nagumo, &Okada). But what kind of advantage does iconicity actuallygive? Here we use cross-situational learning (Yu & Smith,2007), to address the question for sound-shape iconicity (theso-called kiki-bouba effect, Ramachandran & Hubbard,2001). In contrast to Monaghan, Mattock, and Walker (2012),Experiment 1 suggests that the iconicity advantage comesfrom referential disambiguation rather than more efficientmemory encoding. Experiments 2 and 3 replicate this result,and moreover show that the kiki-bouba effect is roughlyequally strong for sharp and rounded shapes, a property thatclassic experiments were unable to confirm, and which hasimplication for the effect’s mechanism","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"iconicity; cross-situational learning; kiki-bouba"},{"word":"vocabulary acquisition; artificial language learning; sound-symbolism"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85x6b33r","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jones","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""},{"first_name":"Gabriella","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vigliocco","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27213/galley/16849/download/"}]}